Christmas Carol Project Click on the links below to view/print documents used in class for the project. Scroll to the very bottom to see/hear some student's projects! :)
Option #1: Christmas Card (1 person)
Design and make a Christmas card reflecting Scrooge’s feelings about Christmas. The front should have a Victorian scene, or some other picture that reflects the time and history (1800s). The inside verse must be 8-10 lines and it should have a rhyme pattern. The back should have some sort of stamp or mark of the artist (you) or your company. This should be a realistic card—not one just drawn onto a piece of notebook or printer paper. Please use heavy construction paper or card stock paper. You may use graphics, but I’d prefer it if you draw and color it yourself. You will NOT be given computer access in class and you may NOT submit a card entirely made from/on the computer. (Access the "Rubric" and view images of the Victorian Era by clicking on #1 and #2 above!)
Option #2: “The Night Before Christmas” Poem Project (1 OR 2 people)
Study a copy of the popular “The Night before Christmas” poem written by Clement C. Moore. Rewrite it to reflect Scrooge’s feelings about Christmas and what the night before Christmas meant to him. The original has 56 lines in it. Your rewrite must imitate the rhyme pattern and it must have at least 24 lines. Try to tell a story in it, and make sure you have a good closing (ending). Type it or print it neatly onto a piece of construction paper; decorate around it so it depicts the play’s mood, setting or events. (Access the "Rubric" and the original poem near the top of this page)
Option #3: Christmas Carol—Scrooge Style! (1 OR 2 people)
Take a popular Christmas carol and rewrite it to reflect Scrooge’s (the miser’s) beginning feelings about Christmas. Write out the words to the original carol. Then, make some changes in the wording to make it more pleasing to Ebenezer Scrooge. You must write at least two verses and include the chorus. Then, you need to record it for others to hear---either on a cassette tape, video tape, and/or save it to a flashdrive. With your permission (and if our technology permits it), I’d like to upload it to the class wiki page! You can sing it alone, with friends or with family. With your recorded song, you also need to turn-in a two-columned copy (see below) of the original lyrics with your rewritten lyrics in the next column. (Reminder: make sure your name and class period is clearly marked with tape on your cassette/flashdrive.) (Access the "Rubric" near the top of this page)
Carol Suggestions: Jingle Bells, Silent Night, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, 12 Days of Christmas, Santa Claus is coming to town, Jo to the World, We Wish youa Merry Christmas, Deck the Halls, The Little Drummer Boy, I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus, Winter Wonderland, I’m Getting Nuttin for Christmas, I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
Scroll to the very bottom to see/hear some student's projects! :)
Due date: end of class Thursday, Dec. 20
Option #1: Christmas Card (1 person)
Design and make a Christmas card reflecting Scrooge’s feelings about Christmas. The front should have a Victorian scene, or some other picture that reflects the time and history (1800s). The inside verse must be 8-10 lines and it should have a rhyme pattern. The back should have some sort of stamp or mark of the artist (you) or your company. This should be a realistic card—not one just drawn onto a piece of notebook or printer paper. Please use heavy construction paper or card stock paper. You may use graphics, but I’d prefer it if you draw and color it yourself. You will NOT be given computer access in class and you may NOT submit a card entirely made from/on the computer. (Access the "Rubric" and view images of the Victorian Era by clicking on #1 and #2 above!)
Option #2: “The Night Before Christmas” Poem Project (1 OR 2 people)
Study a copy of the popular “The Night before Christmas” poem written by Clement C. Moore. Rewrite it to reflect Scrooge’s feelings about Christmas and what the night before Christmas meant to him. The original has 56 lines in it. Your rewrite must imitate the rhyme pattern and it must have at least 24 lines. Try to tell a story in it, and make sure you have a good closing (ending). Type it or print it neatly onto a piece of construction paper; decorate around it so it depicts the play’s mood, setting or events. (Access the "Rubric" and the original poem near the top of this page)
Option #3: Christmas Carol—Scrooge Style! (1 OR 2 people)
Take a popular Christmas carol and rewrite it to reflect Scrooge’s (the miser’s) beginning feelings about Christmas. Write out the words to the original carol. Then, make some changes in the wording to make it more pleasing to Ebenezer Scrooge. You must write at least two verses and include the chorus. Then, you need to record it for others to hear---either on a cassette tape, video tape, and/or save it to a flashdrive. With your permission (and if our technology permits it), I’d like to upload it to the class wiki page! You can sing it alone, with friends or with family. With your recorded song, you also need to turn-in a two-columned copy (see below) of the original lyrics with your rewritten lyrics in the next column. (Reminder: make sure your name and class period is clearly marked with tape on your cassette/flashdrive.) (Access the "Rubric" near the top of this page)
Carol Suggestions: Jingle Bells, Silent Night, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, 12 Days of Christmas, Santa Claus is coming to town, Jo to the World, We Wish youa Merry Christmas, Deck the Halls, The Little Drummer Boy, I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus, Winter Wonderland, I’m Getting Nuttin for Christmas, I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
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